Indonesia just yeeted the entire tech industry into a copyright boss fight, and the rulebook rewrite is absolutely wild. The country is banning AI from cloning an artist's recognizable flair, mandating disclosure on machine-generated content, and forcing platforms into licensing deals for training data.
Hermansyah Siregar, the head of Indonesia's DJKI agency, confirmed the draft and framed generative AI as an existential threat to human creativity. The rules would only grant copyright to AI-assisted works that clear a human-involvement threshold, while fully machine-made output gets zero protection.
Non-compliant platforms could lose their local operating permits entirely. Google fired back hard, warning that overly rigid mandates would strangle the digital economy and scare off investment.
The draft also hits voice-cloning tools like Suno and Udio, which the RIAA already dragged into court over mass infringement claims. Unlike Singapore and Japan, which let companies freely scrape protected content for AI training, Indonesia is going full protectionist mode with no locked-in passage timeline.
Hermansyah Siregar, the head of Indonesia's DJKI agency, confirmed the draft and framed generative AI as an existential threat to human creativity. The rules would only grant copyright to AI-assisted works that clear a human-involvement threshold, while fully machine-made output gets zero protection.
Non-compliant platforms could lose their local operating permits entirely. Google fired back hard, warning that overly rigid mandates would strangle the digital economy and scare off investment.
The draft also hits voice-cloning tools like Suno and Udio, which the RIAA already dragged into court over mass infringement claims. Unlike Singapore and Japan, which let companies freely scrape protected content for AI training, Indonesia is going full protectionist mode with no locked-in passage timeline.
